• Welcome to the Bideford & District Community Archive

    Welcome to the Bideford & District Community Archive

    ...The Gazette Newspaper 1856 onwards.

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  • Welcome to the Bideford & District Community Archive

    Welcome to the Bideford & District Community Archive

    ...The Gazette Newspaper 1856 onwards.

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    Wynne Olley's styles impress International Hair Fashion Designer
  • 2 Westward Ho! public conveniences get go ahead
  • 3 Fundraising trip for RNLI

  • 4 What the television camera saw at Abbotsham

  • 5 Four sisters' nostalgic reunion

  • 6 Puzzle corner at Bideford!

  • 7 Speeding communications: Bideford firm's new installation

  • 8 Private home for public pump

  • 9 Bideford's private wharves busier

  • 10 Happy Days!

  • 11 Torrington to have first woman mayor

  • 12 All aboard the ark

  • 13 Peter poses for TV film

  • 14 Fish nearly pulled him in

  • 15

    Andre Veillett and Quentin Reed in Judo Demonstration
  • 16 Yelland potter's exhibition at Bideford

  • 17 Bideford Liberal club new lounge bar opened

  • 18 No laughing matter

  • 19 Watch the dicky bird!

  • 20

    FA Cup Match for the Robins
  • 21 Grenville House for Bideford R.D.C.

  • 22 Ship-in-bottle world record

  • 23 Last train from Torrington

  • 24 In their new robes and hats

  • 25 Landmark at Bradworthy

  • 26 New shipyard on schedule

  • 27 Safe door weighing two tons

  • 28 Water Board mains spread through villages

  • 29 America's tribute to 'J.H.'

  • 30 Appledore's largest

  • 31 Up-to-date Bideford!

  • 32 Bringing shopping home by goat

  • 33 Escaped crane moves into Kenwith Valley

  • 34 The Geneva marionettes

  • 35 Works at craft he learned over 65 years ago

  • 36 New gateway to King George's Fields

  • 37 Farewell to passenger trains

  • 38 Gloves fit for a king!

  • 39 Bideford triplets' first birthday party

  • 40 Thorn-apple found in Littleham conservatory

  • 41 Move for oldest boatyard on Torridge

  • 42 Bideford firm develops new non-spill paint

  • 43 TV features Bideford's New Year bread ceremony

  • 44 Photo of town's first car wins prize

  • 45 Calf thinks of mare as mum

  • 46 Torridge wins on time schedule

  • 47 Torrington Youth Club rewarded by party
  • 48 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 49 The art of the thatcher

  • 50 Yeo vale road ruin provides a mystery

  • 51 New Lundy stamps

  • 52 Hartland Dancers
  • 53 Warmington's garage ad

  • 54 Pet squirrels at Monkleigh

  • 55 Signed scroll momento of Queen Mother's visit

  • 56 Tramps camp by riverside throughout arctic weather

  • 57 Hartland postman retires

  • 58 Jalopy joy for children of Shamwickshire

  • 59 Fishing light goes out at close of poor season

  • 60 X-ray shoe fitting

  • 61 Bravery against bull at Shebbear rewarded

  • 62 Riverside mystery

  • 63 Six footed lamb

  • 64 Bideford's new market opens next week

  • 65 Bank Holiday weather was beach weather

  • 66

    Birgitta Whittaker
  • 67 Appledore's new lifeboat

  • 68

    Married in 1908
  • 69 Torrington's shelter for the aged

  • 70 Royal prince visits Torridge-side

  • 71 Just over a year old

  • 72 Appledore boy is youngest recipient of RNLI vellun

  • 73 Repair work on Long Bridge
  • 74 Panel sprint for Bideford broadcast

  • 75

    Mrs Whapham finds ferret in Bridgeland Street while shopping
  • 76 Can spring be far away?

  • 77 New look for Torrington Lane

  • 78 Designed and made in Bideford

  • 79 Bideford A.F.C annual dinner
  • 80 Charter granted by Philip and Mary

  • 81 Pretty pennies at Beaford

  • 82 Sweet success at Langtree School

  • 83 Allhalland Street - then and now

  • 84 Ten year old scrambler

  • 85 Calligrapher extraordinary

  • 86 Police station view of Bideford

  • 87

    Successful motor cycling team
  • 88 New civic medallions

  • 89 Bicycle now does donkey work

  • 90 Childrens' model of Torrington

  • 91

    Appledore boys beat mums at football
  • 92 Harvest service in Bideford 'pub' bar

  • 93 First ship in 8 years

  • 94 Cavaliers join the Hunt
  • 95 Bideford 'What's my line?' challenger

  • 96 Parkham plan realised

  • 97 One of the luckier farmers in getting in the problem harvest

  • 98 Centuries old but today busier than ever

  • 99

    Close associations with North Devon
  • 100 Down at the 'Donkey House'

  • 101 Lots drawn to prevent dog fight

  • 102

    Mums protest in Coronation Road
  • 103 Bideford regatta

  • 104 Death - and birth - of a telephone exchange

  • 105 Getting up steam for tomorrow

  • 106 Saving money, wear and tear

  • 107 Weare Giffard potato

  • 108 They set out for Bideford and became lost

  • 109 Five generations link Woolsery, Clovelly and Bideford

  • 110 Picture bought for shillings may be worth thousands

  • 111 Bideford childrens' cinema opens

  • 112 North Devon Driving School

  • 113 Photo mural in Bideford bank

  • 114 Loads of black and white

  • 115 A story to tell!

  • 116 Tide sweeps under and over the old bridge

  • 117 New Lundy air-mail stamps

  • 118 One thousand visit zoo at Whitsun

  • 119 Alderman Anstey's dream comes tru

  • 120 Jumble sale fever

  • 121 Success to Festival of the Arts

  • 122 Bideford computer stars

  • 123

    Lenwood Squash Club
  • 124 Wilfred and Mabel visit schools and hospital

  • 125 Bideford's gift to Sir Francis

  • 126 Waldon Triplets
  • 127 Gift plaque on Clovelly council houses

  • 128 Buckland goes to County Show

  • 129 Revenge in style

  • 130 Meredith's ironmongers

  • 131 The creative urge on Saturday morning

  • 132 Instow local art show was 'tremendous success'

  • 133 A Weare Giffard speciality - delicious strawberries

  • 134 Cement-clad boats being built at Northam

  • 135 John Andrew Bread Charity
  • 136 Northam wants to continue pumping from river

  • 137

    Holidaying in north Devon
  • 138 Homage to a well-loved sovereign

  • 139 Bideford stock car racing entry comes in second

  • 140 Donkey work made easier at Clovelly

  • 141 Variety in summer weather

  • 142 Barley from Bideford to Bonnie Scotland

  • 143 Spray dodging - the new pastime

  • 144 Launching the 'Golden Hinde'

  • 145 What is future of railway goods yard?

  • 146 Eight to strike and a race to win

  • 147 Entente cordiale in Bideford

  • 148 Holiday scene near Sandymere

  • 149 Sixty-two year old Picarooner makes ready for season

  • 150 Ships at Bideford

  • 151 School crossing patrol begins

  • 152 Born 1883 - still going strong

  • 153 Shoes certainly not made for walking

  • 154 It really was the 'last time'

  • 155 Bideford Zoo's first baby is big draw

  • 156 Devil sent packing

  • 157 Sunshine and shade at Appledore

  • 158 Celebrations for 103rd birthday

  • 159 By pony and trap to market

  • 160 Bideford country dancers on TV

  • 161 Decontrol of meat

  • 162

    Inter-school Road Safety Quiz Cup Winners
  • 163 Four hundred residents leave Bideford!

  • 164 New Estate's view of estuary activities

  • 165 Modern living at Bideford

  • 166 Northam's almshouse

  • 167 Westward Ho! Tennis Club Winners
  • 168 Torrington's enterprise's new extensions

  • 169 School's link with cargo ship

  • 170 Symbol of Lundy independence

  • 171 Faints as she wins national competition

  • 172 Picking the pops

  • 173 Alwington School closing after 120 years

  • 174 No ancient Grecian temple this

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    New gateway
  • 176 Ancestral home nestling in lovely combe

  • 177 A lost Bideford 'island'

  • 178 New life for Hartland organ

  • 179 Largest salmon caught in Torridge

  • 180 Reed threshing 'putting the clock back' at Weare Giffard

  • 181 Thrush builds nest in cauliflower

  • 182 When horses score over the tractor

  • 183 New look in the hayfields

  • 184 First steel ship built at Bideford

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    Was a missionary
  • 186 Torrington's new amenity

  • 187 Alverdiscott is proud of its new parish hall

  • 188 Wishing well is pixielated

  • 189 Baby Kate goes home to Lundy

  • 190 Old Girls revisit Edgehill

  • 191 Hartland's invitation

  • 192 Fishermen of Greencliff

  • 193 Fleet of foot and fair of face

  • 194 Lady Godiva comes to Torrington

  • 195 No ancient Grecian temple this

  • 196 Salmon netting at Bideford

  • 197 All for the love of a lady!

  • 198 On her 'maiden' trip from Bideford

  • 199 Eight and a half million pound Taw development scheme

  • 200 Cruising down the river

  • 201 Space dominates Hartland carnival

  • 202 Sight of a lifetime

  • 203 Clovelly nightmare

  • 204 Preparations for new Clovelly Court

  • 205 Quads at Thornhillhead

  • 206 A man and his wheel

  • 207 Off on a great adventure

  • 208 Northam loses thatched cottage landmark

  • 209 Centenary of Landcross Methodist Chapel

  • 210 A roof-top view - where?

  • 211

    Bidefordians
  • 212 Making way for the double-deckers

  • 213 Future of Torrington almshouses

  • 214 Bideford inquest on French trawlermen opens

  • 215 Chess - their bridge over the years

  • 216

    Youth Clubs Join Together For Entertainment
  • 217 Unique holiday adventure!

  • 218 No sale of Springfield House

  • 219 Two kinds of hovercraft at Bideford

  • 220 Joe the ginger tabby is 21

  • 221 'Les Girls' of Hartland

  • 222 In the tortoise nursery - eight hatched at Bideford

  • 223 To build racing cars in former blacksmith's shop

  • 224 North Devon author featured in TV documentary

  • 225 Record pebble-throwing day

  • 226 Appledore Juniors Football
  • 227 Bideford's first triplets for 12 years

  • 228 Practical sympathy at Northam

  • 229 Head Barman appointed Torrington Town Crier
  • 230 Broomhayes £1,000 Surprise
  • 231 Puppet characters introduced

  • 232 Thunderstorm destruction of 25 years ago

  • 233

    Double Baptism on Torridge
  • 234 He beat the floods

  • 235 Brothers reunion 1947
  • 236 Yeoi Vale House finally demolished

  • 237 River scenes that enchant the visitors

  • 238 Bideford electricity window display qualifies for area competition

  • 239 Artisans' Club

  • 240 Second Monte Carlo Rally

  • 241 TV contest means big job for Bideford Guides

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    Toasted with musical honours
  • 243 Centenary of Gazette

  • 244 Finished in 1876

  • 245 Little 'Big Ben'

  • 246 Eleventh hour bid to save last sailing barge

  • 247 Polish custom on Pancake Day

  • 248 Quads join a Langtree happy family

  • 249 First tankers arrive at new depot

  • 250 Smiling welcome to Hartland visitors

  • 251 Inscribed Bibles and silver spoons for babies

  • 252 New fire and ambulance stations

  • 253 Service with a smile

  • 254 Boys win hockey on the sands challenge

  • 255 Daisy's pride and joy

  • 256 Torrington school's sundial - fashioned by Headmaster

  • 257 Bideford-Torrington road gets 'carpet coat'

  • 258 Penny for the guy

  • 259 Diamond Jubilee of St Peter's Church, East-the-Water

  • 260 Torridge graveyard of wooden hulks

  • 261 Designed all furnishing of new chapel

  • 262 Doing time - over 300 years of it - at Hartland

  • 263 Thirty bridges cross Torridge

  • 264 East-the-Water's call for new school

  • 265 Malibou boys are all-the-year-round surfers

  • 266 Battle of the gap at Westward Ho!

  • 267 Students help model St Sidwell

  • 268 Huntshaw TV mast

  • 269 Beach search for mines takes longer

  • 270 Bideford has built over 500 post-war homes

  • 271 They are parted pro-tem

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    Cadets are given certificates
  • 273 Capers on the cobbles

  • 274 Steep street of old Bideford

  • 275 Simple Item 138
  • 276 New choral society's growing response

  • 277 Teenager Peter Jackson Makes Horror Film
  • 278 Westward Ho! sand yacht to challenge speed record

  • 279 Can-carrying over cobbles has disappeared

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    Gus Honeybun meets local children
  • 281 Larkworthy Family play in Shebbear's Football Team
  • 282 What's the time?

  • 283 Church renovation rejoicing at Northam

  • 284 Bideford Bridge re-opens

  • 285 New art gallery opened

  • 286 For crying out loud!

  • 287 Emergency ferry services

  • 288 Hartland Abbey outdoor staff 60 years ago

  • 289 Children's procession with foxgloves

  • 290 Pannier Market's future?

  • 291 Appledore tugs fete London Tower

  • 292 So this is the mainland!

  • 293 A bird of their own!

  • 294 Television comes to Torridge District

  • 295 Olympic riders to compete at Bideford Horse Show

  • 296 Northam footballers of the future

  • 297

    Building works
  • 298 Not Bideford's answer to the moon rocket!

  • 299 East-the-Water sets town an example

  • 300 Appledore schooner broadcast

  • 301 Mural in the whimsical fashion

  • 302 Torrington in 1967

  • 303 Spring-cleaning the Ridge

  • 304

    Jinxed School Trip
  • 305 Buckland farm workers to receive long-service awards

  • 306 Do recall the old windmill at Northam?

  • 307 Picking the pops

  • 308 Traditions and skills still there

  • 309 'Out of Appledore' sailing memories

  • 310 Bideford schoolboy's courage recognised

  • 311 Champagne send-off for Torrington new factory

  • 312

    First Girls at Bideford Grammar School take part in Play
  • 313 Littleham family's five generations

  • 314 Mobile missionary

  • 315 Sooty is quick on the draw

  • 316 Bideford Liberals' fashion show

  • 317

    Exhibition of school work
  • 318 Bideford skifflers, they're no squares

  • 319 Burnard family reunion

  • 320 New addition to Quay front

  • 321 Bideford loses training ship

  • 322 Circus comes to town

  • 323 Train returns to Westleigh straight

  • 324

    Reds Womens Team Are First To Compete Throughout Season
  • 325 Big develolpment at Calveford

  • 326 Shipbuilding hobby at Hartland

  • 327 Some 240 exhibits

  • 328 Championship Trophy for Hartland
  • 329

    School of Dancing's Annual Display
  • 330 Recognise this resort?

  • 331 Dismantling of wireless mast

  • 332 Bridging the stream

  • 333 Donkey and horses enjoy carnival drink

  • 334 Clovelly's 91 year old horseman

  • 335 A sense of humour in advertising

  • 336 Light reading for the lighthouse

  • 337 Last of Bideford factory chimney

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    First prize
  • 339 Westward Ho! combined op

  • 340 Tomorrow' night's skittles broadcast from Bideford

  • 341 Bideford blacksmith wins English championship

  • 342 A craftsman's 'potted' history

  • 343 Town's second woman mayor in 392 years

  • 344

    Gift from Bideford Town Council
  • 345

    Womens Skittles Competition in Buckland Brewer
  • 346 Council agree to demolition of Chanter's Folly

  • 347 Out of puff!

  • 348 Bideford School Junior Choir Sing in France at Twinning Ceremony in Landivisiau
  • 349 Some mushroom!

  • 350 Vessel built 300 feet above sea level

  • 351 Tibbles home again - and fish supper

  • 352 Birds' convalescent home at Instow

  • 353 Still hunting aged 80 and a Field Master

  • 354

    Hamburger is part of modern life
  • 355 An early 'special' to Bideford

  • 356 Liked holidays here - so starts business

  • 357 Torrington acclaims 400th anniversary of granting of charter

  • 358 Bideford - as Rowlandson saw it about 1810-15

  • 359 Life begins at 80

  • 360 Clovelly donkey film star

  • 361 Panto time at Westward Ho!

  • 362 Open-air art exhibition by 'under 40' group

  • 363 Clovelly custom

  • 364 Passing of a Torrington landmark

  • 365 Bideford shipyard workers cheer new minesweeper

  • 366 Colour TV salesman at eight

  • 367 They never miss a game at Torrington

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    Relatives all over the world
  • 369 Weare Giffard Hall sold for £11,300

  • 370 End of the line

  • 371 Eleven million pound scheme's official opening

  • 372 Broomhayes children will keep their winter pet

  • 373 Record player of 80 years ago

  • 374 Rowing triumphs at Bideford

  • 375 Revived market off to splendid start

  • 376 Littleham cow tops 70 tons mark in milk production

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    10-year-old scrambler practices
  • 378 113 years at Instow

  • 379 Twenty-one yachts

  • 380 Boys from Bideford school complete Ten Tors

  • 381 Holiday traffic in Bideford High Street

  • 382 Wine and beer merchants for 150 years

  • 383 New Post Office

  • 384 Lady Churchill congratulates Bideford artists at nursing exhibition

  • 385 Torrington children build igloo
3.5.1957 Robins win Hansen Cup

Robins Win The Hansen Cup

May 3rd, 1957

Bideford AFC pictured with the Hansen Cup after they had defeated Bude 2-1 in the final

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and suddenly it's spring

Cadds Down Farm

1 March 1974

Joined by Trixie, the pony

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  • Seafield House - the "Spooky House" of Westward Ho!

    The house on the cliff edge known locally as ‘Spooky House’ or even ‘Haunted House’ , was built about 1885.

    The road was especially built to enable access to the house and was initially known as Seafield Road; later it became Merley Road.

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  • Torrington May Fair Queen and Her Attendants

    Names from left to right:Joan Ricketts; Joan Newcombe; Jean Wernhem; Margaret Sweet; Enid Ovenden; Rona Elsworthy; Doris Short; (back row);
    Eileen Short; Miss Margery Bennett (Queen); Joyce Downman; David Fiddian (Page); Peggie Sussex;

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  • Christmas Eve at the Front

    An interesting letter has just been received by Mrs Packer, of Broadclyst, from her husband, Corpl Packer of A Company, 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment, who is serving with the Expeditionary Force in Northern France. In the course of a letter he describes a remarkable incident which occurred on Christmas Eve between the British and German trenches.

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1911 Coronation Medal

Coronation Medal Presented on June 22nd 1911   Learn More

The Hoops Inn

The Hoops Inn close to Peppercombe Beach

The Quay at Appledore

Appledore Quay where Taw and Torridge Rivers meet 

 
Wynne Olley

Crowning Glory

12 October 1962

Their finest achievement to date...

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Shipyard goes into liquidation 1963

Liquidator appointed

4 January 1963

Difficulty in retaining labour...

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Bradworthy Opens Its Memorial Hall

On Saturday nearly 2,000 people attended the opening of Bradworthy Memorial Hall

21.7.1961 Bradworthy Hall

When it was decided to build a hall as a war memorial, a substantial sum was given by Lieut-Col E J W Spread im memory of his sons who were killed in the 1939-45 war. In 1953 a suitable site was bought for £250, and the building began in November 1960, the cost to be about £7,250.

Up to Saturday there about £4,000 in hand, £2,300 of which had been raised since July of last year. The Ministry of Education has promised a grant of £2,150.

Mr G V Northcott, of Exmouth, who opened the hall, was introduced by Mr R G Pomeroy, chairman of the hall committee. After a prayer of dedication by the Rev T R Gibby, Vicar, Mr Northcott unlocked the door of the hall.

The chairman read a telegram of congratulation and good wishes from Col Spread, who was unable to make the journey from Sussex, where he now lives.

Gazette article dated 21 July 1961

New Year Honour For Farmer

Bradworthy farmer Mr Richard Pomeroy, an Old Boy of Bideford Grammar School, was awarded the MBE in the New Year’s Honours list.

4.1.1974 Bradworthy Pomeroy

Aged 57, he lives at Great Dinworthy, Bradworthy, and has been a regional member of the Western Counties Milk Marketing Board for some years. He is a former chairman of Devon NFU and when elected was the youngest farmer to fill this position. Starting with a smallholding at Highampton, he now runs a 400 acre dairy farm with his son Alan.
The full Gazette article is dated 4 January 1974.

World War 1

Bradworthy

18.6.1918 Bradworthy


The Wesleyan Sunday School anniversary blessed by glorious weather, proved to be an unqualified success.
On Sunday, Rev P Collier gave excellent sermons. There are many regrets at the possibility of his leaving this circuit at the next Conference. The singing was hearty and the collections good.

Gazette article dated 18 June 1918

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